This is an analysis of the poem Lost My Voice in New York City that begins with:

Lost my voice in New York City
never heard it again after sixty-seven...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AXbbccXXAb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101110 101001101010 11111 11111 1011100111 1001000111 1001110 100111 11101110 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 280
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words now, going are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).

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